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Back to the roots: The Founders and the separation of church and state

By Alliance Alert

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John Rossomando writing at Inside Catholic: "Following Queen Elizabeth I's reestablishment of the Anglican Church in 1560, Parliament and the queen were made the ultimate source of religious dogma in England. Where the Roman Catholic clergy and bishops had previously decided matters of religion, secular leaders of the House of Commons and House of Lords mandated by law which articles of faith were to be believed by the queen's subjects and which were to be considered illegal. As a result, Catholics and non-conforming Protestants suffered tremendous persecutions in England because of their refusal to submit to the Anglican church. This state of affairs continued throughout the colonial period and into the Americas, where each colony -- except Pennsylvania and New York -- had its own state church. This was a problem the Founding Fathers knew they had to change, and so they made it impossible for the new government to decide matters of religious dogma by prohibiting the creation of a state religion."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on June 21, 2010 (boomark / email).